Cell mechanics: Principles, practices, and prospects

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 371-388

  Moeendarbary, Emad ^a   Harris, Andrew R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN 1 RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL LEVEL; CELL MECHANIC; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLOW KINETICS; FLUID FLOW; FOCAL ADHESION; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; MITOCHONDRION; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PARTICLE TRACKING MICRORHEOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STRESS FIBER; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TRACTION FORCE MICROSCOPY; TURNOVER TIME; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY; YOUNG MODULUS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CYTOSKELETON; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 84906270253     PISSN: 19395094     EISSN: 1939005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wsbm.1275     Document Type: Article

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